also, I tried out a minor patch on e2fsprogs so that the default inode is safe for our uboots, and incorporated that into a newer version of foonas-em (beta-ish). http://downloads.buffalo.nas-central.or ... inode-safebasically, one can just do a default mkfs.ext3 and it will be readable by our old uboots.

One of these days I'd like to give shihsung's uboot a whirl... next thing, I guess...

I followed your instruction to boot from foonas-em through tftp and installing lenny from to /dev/sda1. Booting to 2.6 kernel through tftp seems to work okay, but after I extracted the lenny and new kernel into /dev/sda1 and booting up .. it just won't fire up the kernel .. I could see the file using ext2ls just fine but booting up, I didn't get any further than the following:

it sounds like you are encountering a problem w/ conversion from old to new kernel usage. Bauldrick & I spent hours and hours on that... it can be messy/tricky... Did you run tune2fs to stop the autofsck, as shown, and also run fsck after unmounting and before rebooting?

I followed exactly the steps shown in your how-to (running tune2fs). Anyway, it seems that in the mid of fixing my LS2, the HD developed bad sectors .. no idea if that causes the latest kernel to fail loading .. probably the right time to find a replacement for the aging HD. Will get a replacement for it real soon and will try to load everything again.

Glad to know that tftp-booting foonas-em works fine, just make sure you don't use the "old" foonas-em (the official one at the foonas site) while you are trying to do this upgrade, as it can really confuse your machine and make it much harder to get it booting.

Mine is an "unofficial" release, but it gets past these rtc problems that cause a hang or constant rebooting...

Booted up using slax live CD on my PC and fixed all the problem with the filesystem .. using the previous booting method failed .. but using the above .. ext2load and bootm works. Is there anything particular that I need to do? How do I make it permanent so it could load up the 2.6.30.5 kernel?

Thanks Davy. I used Shihsung's patchfile recompile the kernel successfully, so the hearder file is not needed any more, although it took me more than 12 hours to compile the kernel on LS2.(by the way, can anybody teach me how to do the cross compiling on X86 for mipsel target? I tried but always failed at making the gcc...)

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